In the pitch black night, the two sides have been facing each other for an unknown amount of time.

The officers and soldiers of Cangzhou looked up at Chu Jianglou and Wan Yanxue in the middle, as if they wanted to eliminate the two only between their backhands.

The fact is that they can't help but be arrogant, the main force of the Cangzhou army, which is full of more than 3,000 people, is armed with spears, and has already surrounded Chujianglou.

On the other hand, there are only two enemies.

It seems that this is a battle without suspense.

As long as Fan waits for the order, they can turn the enemy into ashes at any time.

Then, you can even rush back to sleep.

However, Fan Zhi and Chu Jianglou were only stalemate with each other at the moment.

Chu Jianglou was thinking in his heart, how he and Wan Yanxue could get out, and how they quickly retreated with Mrs. Yang and Guo'er.

Fan Zhi's eyes were looking at Wan Yanxue's body, and he didn't want to swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva, and the expression on his face became more and more indescribable.

Obviously, it is because of this that he has not done anything until now.

"Poof!"

He was about to speak, but he felt a chill on the top of his head, like someone who had shaved his hair with an awl in the middle of winter.

Although he has no hair.

What followed was a heart-piercing pain.

Fan Zhi touched the bald head that could no longer be light, looked at the blood stains on his hands, and was stunned for a while.

"If you want to die again, you can try it."

Chu Jianglou slowly lowered his right arm, and with a click, the dragon feather crossbow in his hand was automatically loaded with more than a dozen crossbow arrows in an instant.

And for the first time, his eyes flashed with a cold and piercing murderous aura.

"Ahh

Fan Zhi fell to the ground suddenly, rolling on the ground with his bleeding head in his hands, and scolded non-stop: "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and clean up this brute!"

Those officers and soldiers had already been unable to hold back, and as soon as they received the order, they were like wild horses that had escaped the reins, roaring and rushing towards Chu Jianglou and Wan Yanxue.

"Chong, kill these thieves!"

"Don't let one go, keep that woman's and give it to Master Fan!"

The eyes of those officers and soldiers almost flashed green, and they rushed forward like lions hunting.

However, they were greeted by a rain of arrows.

No, it should be said, a storm of crossbow arrows.

"Boom!"

Under the frightened eyes of those Cangzhou soldiers, a rain of arrows composed of hundreds of crossbow arrows had already swooped down on them from mid-air.

In an instant, the eighty-odd people who rushed to the front regretted it.

Why don't you do it, you have to rush to the front!

If it weren't for the fact that there were only two people on the other side, and they were in a hurry to make meritorious contributions in front of Taishou, how could these paddling experts who usually never contribute actively show their loyalty?

At the last moment of their lives, they only saw the black crossbow machine in the young man's hand, the front end of which was fully deployed.

There were at least ten or more black shooting holes.

And those

"Puff puff!"

Under the powerful firepower of the dragon crossbow, it only took less than a second, and the lives of the eighty or ninety people had been harvested by death.

"Puff puff!"

Chu Jianglou didn't stop, after the blow was successful, he just exerted his right leg, his body turned suddenly, and the crossbow arrow in his hand was like the sickle of death, and in an instant, he had already completed the locking and attack in the three directions of the left and right.

"Puff puff!"

"Puff puff ......"

The sound of crossbow arrows piercing through flesh continued to sound, and in the next moment, hundreds of soldiers who rushed from all directions in a dense formation had fallen in the blink of an eye.

"This, this, this ......"

Those officers and soldiers looked at the mountains of corpses in front of them, and their teeth trembled with fear, and their whole bodies trembled violently, as if they were no longer under the control of their brains.

"Bang!"

Fan stood up, stepped on the spear dropped by a soldier next to him, and planted it into the dung pit of the farmland next to him.

Some of the cowardly people had already thrown away their weapons and were paralyzed on the ground.

At this moment, those officers and soldiers wanted to scold their mothers.

This Fan treats the accumulation of money on weekdays, as long as it can be earned, it will never be let go, just like this Cangzhou City reported to the superiors that it was an establishment of 9,000 infantry and 500 cavalry.

In fact, less than a third.

The extra places naturally gave them two brothers empty salaries.

Forget it, he has to take the bulk of even the military expenses, so that the officers and soldiers can only wear leather armor now, and there are not a few bows and crossbows for fifty people!

If Zhao Ji and the officials in the court knew that the so-called elite of the Great Song Dynasty border army in their eyes was like this, I am afraid that they would be so angry that they would vomit blood!

As a result, not only could they not resist Chu Jianglou's attack, but they didn't even have time to fight back.

Today they were in a hurry, and their bows and arrows were still locked in the storeroom, and they were all armed with knives and guns.

Therefore, under the long-range attack of Chu Jianglou alone, they were paralyzed in an instant!

And before the earth-shattering slaughter just now, the horses had already scattered in all directions in fright, and overturned the parallel goods that were usually trained and paddled all day to the ground, in search of their own paradise.

At this time, the scene suddenly became a little funny.

Fan Zhi was still struggling in the dung pit, but those soldiers just stared at Chu Jianglou in amazement, trembling as if they had been struck by lightning.

Naturally, they didn't notice when Wan Yanxue had disappeared.

The scene was frozen for a moment.

"A bunch of rubbish, hurry up and take those hostages and threaten them!" Fan Zhi finally scolded a few words at the risk of being choked to death: "A bunch of stupid pigs, are they all stupid!"

"Hurry up and save Lord Fan!"

The battalion commander made Cai Xukun scold on the side: "Idiot, hurry up and bring that kid and the girl from the car!"

When the soldiers received the order, they recovered from their extreme panic and rushed to the car where the little boy and Mrs. Yang were bound.

At the same time, several people took bamboo poles and went to the manure tank to fish up the embarrassed Fan Tong.

However, they couldn't see a single person in that car.

I don't know who cut the rope on the wooden frame, and the two have obviously been rescued!

"This ...... What's going on? ”

Fan Tong looked at Chu Jianglou, who was staring at him with a calm expression in front of him, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

He was about to speak, but there was a sharp pain in his right arm, and when he looked down, he found that five small crossbow arrows had already hit his arm.

Fan Tong screamed, covered his right arm and fell to the ground again.

"Hmph, if you don't want him to die, just be honest." Wan Yanxue put down the Fengling crossbow in her hand, and her eyes swept over Mrs. Yang and the little boy on the side.

Both of them sat quietly on the ground, and because Chu Jianglou and the others came early, they were not injured.

And now, the little boy is holding a crossbow arrow in his hand, aiming at Fan Tong's head, as long as Chu Jianglou gives an order, it seems that he can also join this battle.

Then, Wan Yanxue's gaze turned to those soldiers.

And those soldiers were trembling and did not dare to do anything at all.

"Bastard, what are you doing!" Fan Tong sat up and scolded angrily: "Hurry up and catch these rebellious thieves!"

Those soldiers were still motionless, just looking at Chu Jianglou and Wan Yanxue opposite with nervous expressions.

In the face of this terrible weapon...... How else to fight?

Chu Jianglou just looked at the more than two thousand people in front of him with a smile on his face, but in their eyes, it was like the gaze of the devil.

Finally, someone lowered their weapon.

There are more and more such cases, and the contagion of emotions is often extremely fast, as the saying goes, defeat is like a mountain, but there is some truth.

In less than a moment, more than half of the soldiers had already chosen to give up resistance.

"You unbridled shit!"

Fan Tong got up from the ground with his right arm covered, and kept pointing at those people and scolding: "How dare you disobey the military order, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will sue the court, so that your whole clan will die without a place to be buried!"

"Oh, it turns out that Lord Taishou still remembers the existence of the imperial court."

Chu Jianglou clasped his hands in front of his chest, and the corners of his mouth gradually brought a smile: "You did me a great favor, otherwise, I would have almost forgotten about it."

Fan Tong looked at Chu Jianglou's smile, but his heart was inexplicably frightened, and he said tremblingly: "You...... What do you want to do! This official is an official of the imperial court, a member of the five grades, if you dare to kill me, you will not be able to escape the sanctions of the imperial court even if you flee to the ends of the earth! ”

"Heh, don't be so nervous." Chu Jianglou smiled and waved his hand: "I'm not that kind of rude person."

After speaking, he just shouted loudly: "Everyone, listen, as long as you kill Fan Tong, I guarantee that each of you will be able to share this person's family grain."

"Moreover, all the pressure of the imperial court will be solved by me!"

As soon as he said this, those officers and soldiers couldn't help but be stunned.

Subsequently, some have already made a decision.

"You...... What do you want to do? ”

Fan Tong saw that more than half of the people had already walked towards him with knives and guns, and he was suddenly trembling with fright, and he couldn't speak clearly.

"The surname Fan, don't blame the brothers for being ruthless." Cai Xukun sneered and waved the spear in his hand, and smiled sinisterly: "It's because you don't usually treat us as human beings, and we haven't paid our military salaries a few times, we have decided to rebel with Liangshan!"

"You...... You...... You ......"

Fan Tong was so frightened that he fainted directly, Cai Xukun saw that this guy was an eyesore, and one shot killed him and threw this person into the septic tank.

After cleaning up the mess, Cai Xukun gritted his teeth, took more than 1,000 people here to lose their weapons, and simply knelt down on one knee and shouted: "King, we are willing to go to Liangshan, from now on we will drink wine and eat meat in a big bowl, please accept the brothers."

Chu Jianglou's brows furrowed slightly, and then a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he had already calculated it in his heart, and he laughed secretly in his heart.

After a while, Chu Jianglou just smiled and said, "Brothers, I still have some things to deal with, I will explain to Brother Dong Shuang, so you can take this letter to Liangshan to find him, how about I introduced him?"

Cai Xukun was overjoyed in his heart, so he stood up and said: "Since the king is so generous, the younger brother is grateful, please accept the worship of the younger brother." After saying that, he knelt down and bowed again.

Chu Jianglou said with a smile: "Since the corrupt official is dead, I should also fulfill my promise, except for half of the assets distributed to the people, you can take the remaining half."

Cai Xukun frowned, extremely unhappy in his heart, but his face was not easy to realize, so he had to smile reluctantly and leave with half of the people here.

And the remaining half of the people heard that they had money, and they also followed into the city, and the worry of being about to fall into the grass was already thrown out of the clouds.

In fact, they had no choice.

Half of the people followed Cai Xukun away, and if the court tracked it down, the people who stayed behind would definitely sit together according to the law.

When Chu Jianglou entered the city, he asked someone to open the granary, and at this time the sky was already cloudy, and those people heard about the situation and ran out excitedly.

When they saw the mountain of food in front of them, those skinny people who were already hungry left tears one after another, kneeling on the ground and thanking Chu Jianglou and Wan Yanxue.

Chu Jianglou just smiled and helped them up personally, and asked Cai Xukun to lead people to distribute enough food to each household for three months.

Then, Chu Jianglou opened the vault again, arranged to go down, and sent five taels of silver to each household for household use.

"This corrupt official is really ...... Tsk tsk. ”

Chu Jianglou looked at the mountains of gold and silver, just sighed softly, and shook his head again.

Yesterday, he was investigating in the West Street of the city for an afternoon, and only then did he learn that this Fan Tong had been here for a long time, and he was tyrannical, and he had already aroused everyone's dissatisfaction, and even Hou Meng, the pacification envoy of this road, wanted to deal with him.

It's just that this person is good at finding the right and the left, so he has always regarded this soil emperor until now.

"That's a lesson for us." Wan Yanxue said with a smile on the side: "If you oppress the people like these Han people, you may even betray your own soldiers in the end."

"You're right." Chu Jianglou was silent for a long time, and only said this.

"By the way, our crossbows need to be maintained." Wan Yanxue said in a calm tone: "Brother, he reminded us that this new weapon cannot be used frequently for a long time."

Chu Jianglou nodded and didn't say anything.

"King, there are more than 300 people who don't want to fall into the grass." Cai Xukun stepped forward and said, "What, do you kill them or what?"

Chu Jianglou was silent for a moment, but said indifferently: "Give each of them ten taels of silver, and let them go away."

Cai Xukun was stunned for a moment, although he was reluctant in his heart, he had to do it.

"King, thank you so much, we will repay you by being cows and horses in the next life." Those soldiers who had already packed their luggage were kneeling in front of Chu Jianglou at this moment, crying and saying: "We swear by heaven and never reveal this matter, otherwise we will die under the sword!"

Chu Jianglou said with a smile: "It's okay, everyone has their own ambitions, so you can go today, just find the mountain path and go separately, don't let the people in the government find out."

After those people kowtowed and thanked them repeatedly, they took advantage of the fact that it was still early and hurriedly set out on the journey.

Subsequently, Chu Jianglou wrote a letter to Dong Shuang in his own identity, asking him to take in these Cangzhou officers and soldiers.

Cai Xukun was overjoyed, and after letting his men and horses finish the work of settling the people in the city, he took the troops to Liangshan with several other battalion commanders.

"The matter of Guo'er and Sister Yang...... What are you going to do about it? Wan Yanxue asked, "Are you going to let them go here?"

Chu Jianglou leaned against the wall on the side, not in a hurry to reply, but the look on his face was complicated.

"They...... Naturally, I would have called the Golden Bullet Brothers to do this. ”

Looking at the backs of those people leaving, Chu Jianglou had a lot of thoughts in his heart.

"Alright, come and eat."

Mrs. Yang walked out and called Chu Jianglou and Wan Yanxue to go in with a smile.

The two smiled at each other, looked at the peaceful state of the city, turned around and walked into the courtyard.

The four of them sat down at the table to have lunch together, and the courtyard was in a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, and the warm afternoon sun shone on their bodies, making people a little tired.

Looking at this peaceful world, Chu Jianglou's heart remembered a lot.

"You kid, why don't you be careful!"

Mrs. Yang scolded the little boy in a low voice: "Tell you to make less trouble outside, why do you fight with others again."

The little boy said unconvinced: "It was the stupid son of the landlord's family who bullied the people outside, and the child couldn't stand it before he took action."

This conversation touched the deepest memory in Chu Jianglou's heart.

His eyes twitched, as if he remembered what had happened back then.

"Mother, mother, why did we move here?"

Chu Jianglou looked at his mother and asked innocently: "The child wants to wait for his father to come back in Shandong."

Mrs. Chu's eyes were sour, and her pace slowed down at the same time.

"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you?" Chu Jianglou held his mother's hand and shook it non-stop.

Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he lowered his head and said, "The child knows that he is wrong, I beat the son of the prefect this time, and it was the child who caused you." ”

"Child, what you did is right, my mother asked you, are you willing to fight for the world like your father when you grow up?" Mrs. Chu wiped her eyes and asked.

Chu Jianglou nodded affirmatively.

"That's good." Mrs. Chu looked at Chu Jianglou's immature face, which had gradually matured a little, and smiled with satisfaction: "Dad, he just went to a far away place, and when you grow up, he will come back to visit us."

Chu Jianglou listened carefully and nodded thoughtfully.

Three years later, Texas.

"Mother!"

Nine-year-old Chu Jianglou stood in front of the war-torn city wall, watching his mother being killed by officers and soldiers.

"Haha, these Diao people dare to collude with the Liangshan thieves, just to find death, cut off the heads of this girl and those people, and take them back as the head of the thieves!"

"Ah, this stinky boy is crazy!"

"Poof!"

"Heh, this waste still dares to rush over, this shot of Lao Tzu is enough for you to die twice!"

"Tick tock...... Whoa! ”

The downpour was like a flood that opened the floodgates, turning the mud depression into a land of floodwaters in an instant.

The boy dismounted, looked at the child who had fallen to the ground in the distance, and walked over.

"Fourth prince, the task is important, how can there be air control for this child." The lieutenant said in a low voice.

The boy did not speak, but took him on his horse and went to his lodgings.

"Hey, what are you doing in a daze, the wine in the cup is spilling to the ground!"

A crisp and tactful voice interrupted Chu Jianglou's memories and pulled his thinking back to reality.

"Hehe, things are people, time has passed, and there are some things that you can't go back to."

Chu Jianglou just smiled bitterly, but he couldn't say anything.

Through the sunlight, under the light and shadow of Wan Yanxue's flickering between the leaves, the fading figure was like a fairy, and the bitterness on the corner of his mouth gradually disappeared, replaced by a slight smile.

"What are you laughing at?" Wan Yanxue put down the wine glass in her hand and looked at him blankly.

"Thank you, Cher."

"Thank me for what?" Wan Yanxue was even more confused.

"Thank you for always being with me."

Water Margin Ukiyo-e